Clipped feathers: The theory and measurement of hope

Psychological Inquiry

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 311-317

  Tennen, Howard ^a   Affleck, Glenn ^a   Tennen, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

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